President Trump defended disgraced former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Monday, while a new report indicated he was aware Flynn had “misled” the FBI before he fired him.

Flynn pleaded guilty on Friday to lying to the FBI about conversations with Russia’s ambassador, and is cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russian tampering in the 2016 election.

Clinton last year was under investigation for her use of a private email server, and met with the FBI on July 2, 2016.

Unlike Clinton, Flynn has acknowledged lying. Trump said when he fired Flynn weeks into the job it was because he’d lied to Vice President Pence about the same phone calls.

Trump’s account tweeted over the weekend that he was aware Flynn had lied to the FBI at the time as well, but his lawyer John Dowd later claimed that wasn’t true — and that he’d written the tweet for Trump.

Flynn is cooperating with Mueller's investigation.

(Susan Walsh/AP)

But CNN reported on Monday that White House Counsel Don McGahn had indeed made Trump aware that Flynn had likely misled the FBI as well as Pence. It’s not clear if Trump knew at the time that would be criminal.

After Trump canned Flynn, then-FBI Director James Comey said the President suggested he not prosecute Flynn, an episode Mueller is investigating as possible obstruction of justice.

Dowd said that’s a non-starter. The “President cannot obstruct justice because he is the chief law enforcement officer under [the Constitution's Article II] and has every right to express his view of any case,” he told Axios.

Meanwhile, Flynn’s former deputy K.T. McFarland may be in legal hot water as well.

An email obtained by The New York Times shows she told a member of Trump’s transition team that Flynn would be speaking with the Russian ambassador. She’d denied knowing anything about the discussion in testimony before the Senate.